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Wednesday, March 05, 2014

Rachel Canning appeared in court yesterday with her parents and a judge denied her request for $650 a week in child support expenses and the payment of her private school tuition fees. The judge agreed with the court investigator that Canning is spoiled and that parents should not live in fear of enforcing rules because their kids might sue them for financial support of they don't agree with the rules. There is a hearing scheduled for next month where the judge will decide if Rachel Canning is entitled to the college fund her parents established for her. The only way that will happen is if the same investigator who deemed her spoiled somehow now says that Canning left home on her own or her parents were abusive and kicked her out which is what Canning is alleging. I think she will be out of luck but maybe the family will kiss and makeup prior to that hearing. I can't believe it has gone on this long.

I dont have sympathy for her, it's all very selfish on her part. I'm interested to hear the actual story though, but growing up around similar brats I totally believe that she left home and is expecting them to continue to fund her fancy live.

No, it won't. There are different kinds of college funds but the laws are all the same. Every single penny must go to the education of the account holder. Parents can only be custodians of said account and are not legally permitted to withdraw the money for any other purpose than education. If the parents set up a legit college fund, there is no way possible they can withhold it or spend it on any other purposes.

I read a news story about this and apparently CPS interviewed the other sisters, no abuse or weirdness in the home. Her "parent problems" started when she skipped school to spend the day with her suspended from school boyfriend back in October.

When she refused to adhere to household rules her parents laid down the law and she moved into boyfriends house, then into a friends house.

As the mother of an almost 17 year old, I am watching this case closely.

I hope this brat doesn't get a dime. The parents should be vale to set ground rules for living in their home. She is 18; if she doesn't like the rules, move out, get a job and then she can date or do whomever she pleases. She has made all sorts of claims against the parents CPS said was bullshit.

If she was serious about getting her education, public school is free to attend. There are fees, of course, but they are affordable. Teenagers--most days they make it very difficult for a parent to remember that they love them. Nothing makes that bad boy boyfriend more appealing to a teen girl than having mom and dad freak out and insist you stop seeing him.

I don't care how strict her parents rules are...they're her parents rules. She's an adult, chose to move out. Now she's on her own (her decision), and she's broke. Get a job and pay your own way like all the other grown-ups in the world. Welcome to the world of being an adult.

I'm not sure what to think of this, to be honest. On the one hand, I'd like to smack her upside her head and tell her to grow the fuck up. On the other hand, I'm inclined to think they created this monster and it's too little too late from them, y'know?

she def need a dose of real life....it won't be as fun as she thinks....she'll be crawling back in no time at all

I don't even know why parents are "supposed" to be responsible for paying for college automatically. Look what it's done the the university system which is all about the almighty $$$$ now. There would be a lot more serious college students if they were responsible for the debt. They would be forced to make better decisions. They might even try harder and not play around so much while they are there. College paid for by your middle class parents used to be a privilege and now they think it's their right.......

and then they graduate from their 4 yr vacay paid for by their parents and can't get a job in their "field" which may very well be some unmarketable ridiculous thing that is their "passion".........what a mess we have made.

Since you can't file bankruptcy on college loan debt-I say we make the change and make them responsible for their adult actions and decisions starting with their college education. Good start good lesson.

She claimed her father Inappropriately touched her and her mother called her fat and porky which led to her bulimia.

I hope she gets in trouble for lying under oath and making up these false accusations for some money. She is a disgusting human being, and that has nothing to do with the parents. They have other kids/kid that are fine, sometimes kids are just not controllable .

Having grown up in Fairfield county, CT, I can tell you there are LOTS of kids with this kind of attitude....makes me scared for the future

I think she baited her mother into an angry convo on the phone so she could get the desired result.....I'm sure she knows how to push her mother's buttons by now and did so to make sure they heard whatever she wanted them (the school) to hear.........

And what about the dad if the friend that's footing the legal bills.......something is not right with that.....little girl is going to learn nothing is for free...then she will be running back into daddy's arms. Ugh I just can't with this story...it bothers me so much.

@rajahcat I totally agree with you that it is not a parents legal responsibility to pay for their children's college. My kids are nowhere near college age but there is no way my husband and I will pay for their college, even if we had the money (which we don't and probably won't when the time comes) because I have found that kids who had their college funded did not take as seriously as those who did not. I paid my way through college, my parents couldn't afford it back in the day, and I took it very seriously because I knew 6 months after graduation those bills were coming due.This young lady makes me shake my head.

Depends on where the college fund money is saved. If it's an education IRA with her name on it, it's probably going to be hers. If it's a simple savings account or the like and they're juat calling it her education fund, she can kiss that money goodbye.

I"m so glad the judge has a brain, and can see down the road to what would have happened if the daughter had been awarded 650 per week. The courts are already clogged with real cases that need attention. This entitled young lady no doubt considers the word No to be abusive. The lawyer father of her BF, who helped her with this, has behaved abominably.

She's entitled to shit. If college fund set up solely for educational purposes, does that apply to little miss cant be wrong as well? In other words, can she blow thru her college money on non college things? I feel sympathy for her parents and dont blame them for her. We all know great parents who have lousy kids. And yeah, i think she will exploit thus to the hilt, and she will be on today show ere ling. disgusting.

Rajacat, you could not be more right. And then they have yhis ridic degrees in say Guatamalon basket weaving, and if course cant get a job. So what do they do??!! Back to school!!!!!! Now on their dime, they very serious.

@Sherry the Catholic school she goes to told her she couldn't stay with her boyfriend anymore. She was only there two nights before moving in with this gross lawyer and his family that looks like extras on Jersey Shore.

When she sees the writing on the wall, that she's not going to get a dime, she'll tearfully apologize, move back in and continue seeing the BF on the sly (like she should have done in the first place).

don't be so quick to blame parents for everything-I've seen kids with the best of parenting go down in flames-there are a lot of other factors out there besides the parenting. I actually think they are pushing tough love now before it is too late for her. I wouldn't be so judgy about others parenting.

I read that the parents are not adverse to paying for college, they just don't want to pay for the really expensive one she has chosen.

There was some quote from the dad like, "it's saying we will go shopping, just not at the high end store"

Also, although they raised the spoiled brat, at least they realized the error of their ways and tried to instill some rules. Better late than never (especially with two younger girls in the house).

I do think the "friend's" parents should have MYOB. Giving someone a place to stay is one thing (I had a couple of friends "run away" to my house in high school) but helping to SUE the parents, that is TOO MUCH.

Someone mentioned that the law states that she has to receive the funds set aside for her college. Here's the thing about that. The parents set the fund aside and she's basically the beneficiary. All the parents have to do is change the bene to one of the other kids. She'll be ass out!

Mom and Pop are smart not to pay up. She's really stupid if she thinks this will work. PLUS, the price she'll pay for trying to be "right" will be WAY higher than any tuition bill.

As soon as she figures out that she's going to have to take her grown behind to work she'll go crawling back to mommy and daddy real fast!

lots of em make it to 25 without a job these days.......they are in school like forever now. 6 yr 4yr degrees because they can't get their courses in in 4 (sad money ploy created by universities). And then when they don't get the perfect job in their so called field they go to grad school and create their own school loans to pay forever.

a job at 25 now might be a rarity

after all you pretty much have to keep them on you insurance until 27-why do you think that happened????

we have created a society where 18 yr olds are now the equivalent of a 13 yr old....prolonged adolescence

Parents are in on it. This is a sign of the times. Reality show is already in the works for the teenager. Mom is already writing a book about the "experience". Dad is opening a restaurant in the fall. It's a ploy people.

I concur that parents can do their best & children can turn out very differently from what their upbringing would indicate. My brother seemed to come from a different home.Having written that, re: the allegations of abuse, it is quite common for only one child in a family to be a victim. Siblings may have no idea of what is going on. The fact that people are willing to help her makes me hesitant to dismiss the claim so readily.

These parents are lucky. How many times have we read true crime stories about teenage girls whose parents disapprove of their boyfriends, and the next thing you know, the parents and other siblings are dead because the idiot girl figures she'll just take out her whole family, inherit all the money and live happily ever after? Menendez anybody?

In other news, I went out to lunch with my best friend today and two guys next to us not only tried to pick us up, but also offered to pay our bill. We declined but now I'm wondering if we should sue for unwanted sexual conduct in a public environment.

Also, my basil grapefruit martini had a sugar rim and I specifically request no rim, so I am considering suing for breach of contract and attempted assault (sugar rims make me stabby, though Sugar doesn't).

And it was raining on the way in and the restaurant did not provide a personal umbrella holder for us, so I am considering suing for deliberate defamation of character via wet hair.

My specs got wet, too, and need to be replaced, so I'll add that to the damages.

RajaI didn't say a career, I said a job. As in any job, even a 12 hour a week, learn a few skills, part time, pocket money type of thing. Those fast food, mall retail positions that help teach you responsibility, team work, following directions, etc.

My apologies if anyone else did not understand what I meant.

I have seen this trend in my own personal HR experience, new graduates who have applied for positions with almost no actual skills on their resumes, just a long list of education stuff. Some of them had internships and volunteer positions, but too many of them were unable to tell me what 'skills' those experiences gave them. It was basically 'but I have a degree, isn't that enough?' It's disturbing and I genuinely hope what I've seen is not indicative of what's really happening out there.

Yeah and the allegations re the mum when you read the transcript of the message she left the mum it is clear she is angry her mum thought she was making herself sick again and monitoring her. So the complete opposite of wanting her to be bulimic. Girl has just made it up.

But they've been investigated. She didn't say he abused her fully but kissed her on the cheek and gave her booze at a wedding. There would be plenty of witnesses not just the siblings. Who knows what the people helping her think but I think it's telling the dad of the friend said her parents hadn't paid him.

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